An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally crawled into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning, months after having ...

A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her organism-covered shell.

There are many threats to sea turtles, but most of them come from humans. Dangers may range from getting entangled in fishing ...

You can help the mother sea turtles and their hatchlings by filling in your holes in the sand, picking up trash, and taking all your beach items with you when you leave. TODAY: ICE says 'Operation ...

Sea turtles can survive being struck by a boat propeller — but as they heal from the trauma, their shells often change shape, bulging from air building up within their bodies. That throws the ...

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect ... to pull the plastron toward the carapace; some hinged-shell species can completely ...

Time to shell out the warnings for Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Nesting season “A lot of times people will come up to us when we’re excavating the eggs and they ask, what happens to them?

Turtle hospitals and aquariums across the country are caring for sea turtles that stranded on beaches during the winter season, which is now coming to a close amid ... were up 65% over the 10 ...

LAMBERT: Stokes teamed up with other researchers who studied the movements of sea turtles, penguins and whales. The team combined data from satellite trackers affixed to turtle shells, video ...

A sea turtle's shell is a complex masterpiece, made up of two parts: the carapace (top) and the plastron (bottom), both covered in scutes -- tough keratin plates tightly attached to the bone.